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I'm a software engineer, Wikipedian, and graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a degree in computer science. My interests center on operating systems, distributed computing, and security, but I enjoy working on exciting problems in many areas. You can reach me at ben.kurtovic@gmail.com.

Projects

A look at what I've been up to for the past several years:

Highlights

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Other work

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Posts

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